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A Model Study of the First Ventilated Regime of the Arctic Ocean During RESEARCH/REVIEW ARTICLE A model study of the first ventilated regime of the Arctic Ocean during the early Miocene Bijoy Thompson,1 Martin Jakobsson,1 Johan Nilsson,2 Jonas Nycander2 & Kristofer Do¨ o¨ s2 1 Department of Geological Sciences, Stockholm University, Stockholm SE-10691, Sweden 2 Department of Meteorology, Stockholm University, Stockholm SE-10691, Sweden Keywords Abstract Ocean modelling; Miocene Arctic Ocean; palaeoceanography; ocean ventilation; The tectonic opening of Fram Strait during the Neogene was a significant age tracer. geological event that transferred the Arctic Ocean from a poorly ventilated enclosed basin, with weak exchange with the North Atlantic, to a fully Correspondence ventilated ‘‘ocean stage’’. Previous tectonic and physical oceanographic Bijoy Thompson, Department of Geological analyses suggest that the early Miocene Fram Strait was likely several times Sciences, Stockholm University, Stockholm narrower and less than half as deep as the present-day 400 km wide and 2550 SE-10691, Sweden. E-mail: [email protected] m deep strait. Here we use an ocean general circulation model with a passive age tracer included to further address the effect of the Fram Strait opening on the early Miocene Arctic Ocean circulation. The model tracer age exhibits strong spatial gradient between the two major Arctic Ocean deep basins: the Eurasian and Amerasian basins. There is a two-layer stratification and the exchange flow through Fram Strait shows a bi-layer structure with a low salinity outflow from the Arctic confined to a relatively thin upper layer and a saline inflow from the North Atlantic below. Our study suggests that although Fram Strait was significantly narrower and shallower during early Miocene, and the ventilation mechanism quite different in our model, the estimated ventilation rates are comparable to the chemical tracer estimates in the present-day Arctic Ocean. Since we achieved ventilation of the Arctic Ocean with a prescribed Fram Strait width of 100 km and sill depth of 1000 m, ventilation may have preceded the timing of a full ocean depth connection between the Arctic Ocean and North Atlantic established through seafloor spreading and the development of the Lena Trough. The components influencing the global climate system widely known examples in palaeoceanography is the over timescales of 104Á106 years include the variations in Mediterranean Sea’s isolation from Atlantic Ocean the Earth’s orbital geometry, the continental geography 5.6 million years ago (Mya) which resulted in a following and topography, the configuration of oceanic basins period of severe evaporation referred to as the Messinian and gateways, and the concentrations of the atmos- salinity crisis (Krijgsman et al. 1999). The spectacular pheric greenhouse gases. The complex dynamics of these flooding 5.33 Mya, called the Zanclean flood event and components have driven Earth’s climate through the caused by the tectonic subsidence of Gibraltar Strait, Cenozoic transition from what commonly is referred to as changed the palaeoceanographic conditions in the Med- a Greenhouse to an Icehouse World (Zachos et al. 2001). iterranean Sea (Garcia-Castellanos et al. 2009). Much Of the tectonic boundary conditions, the variations in like the late Miocene Mediterranean Sea, the Arctic ocean gateways have in particular imposed significant Ocean was landlocked during most of the Cenozoic, changes to the global ocean circulation and physical implying that its palaeoceanographic evolution was for properties of sea water in different basins (Zachos et al. long periods disconnected from the rest of the World 2001; von der Heydt & Dijkstra 2006). One of the most Oceans (O’Regan et al. 2011). However, a comprehensive Polar Research 2012. # 2012 B. Thompson et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 1 Unported License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/), permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Citation: Polar Research 2012, 31, 10859, http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/polar.v31i0.10859 (page number not for citation purpose) Modelling the first ventilated regime of the Arctic Ocean B. Thompson et al. investigation of the Arctic Ocean Cenozoic palaeo- 2006; Jakobsson et al. 2007; Haley et al. 2008; Backman environmental history has been restrained by the scarcity & Moran 2009). One of these results suggests that the of continuous geological records. It was only in 2004, Arctic Ocean transformed from a poorly oxygenated when the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) ‘‘lake stage’’ to a fully oxygenated ‘‘ocean stage’’ during Expedition 302, the Arctic Coring Expedition (ACEX), late early Miocene (17.5 Mya; Jakobsson et al. 2007). The retrieved the first long drill core from the central Arctic authors link this ventilation change to the tectonic Ocean, that proposed tectonic models with palaeoceano- opening of Fram Strait; the major ocean gateway graphic implications could be compared with geological between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans located between ground truth (Backman et al. 2006). The 428 m long Greenland and Svalbard (Fig. 1). Furthermore, from sediment record retrieved from the Lomonosov Ridge a two-layer analytical model the transition to a fully unveiled a range of novel results (e.g., Brinkhuis et al. oxygenated Arctic Ocean regime is estimated to have 2006; Moran et al. 2006; Pagani et al. 2006; Sluijs et al. happened when Fram Strait first reached a width of Fig. 1 (a) The present Arctic Ocean portrayed by the International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean (IBCAO; Jakobsson et al. 2008). The two major present-day surface circulation features, the Transpolar Drift and Beaufort Gyre, are shown. The Beaufort Gyre has generally two predominant regimes; one anticyclonic (black: SeptemberÁMay) and one cyclonic (grey: JuneÁAugust) (Proshutinsky et al. 2002). (b) The reconstructed palaeo-bathymetry representing the early Miocene Arctic Ocean. The IBCAO grid shown in (a) was used as base data for this reconstruction (see text for further information). (c) The palaeo-bathymetric grid was translated so that the geographic position 788N08E, located in the centre of Fram Strait, was moved to 308N08E in order to avoid problems associated with having the North Pole included in the simulations. 2 Citation: Polar Research 2012, 31, 10859, http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/polar.v31i0.10859 (page number not for citation purpose) B. Thompson et al. Modelling the first ventilated regime of the Arctic Ocean about 40Á50 km. They also estimated that with an inflow about 200Á300 years (Schlosser et al. 1997; Timmermans of 1.5 Sv (1 Sv106 m3/s) from the Atlantic Ocean, the et al. 2005; Tanuha et al. 2009). The deep waters in the ventilation time may be less than 250 years. Canada Basin are older, with a mean age estimate of 450 Here we use an ocean general circulation model years (Schlosser et al. 1997). From using CFC inventories, (OGCM) specifically configured for the late early Mio- the present-day upper limit of ventilation timescale in cene Arctic Ocean basin to further address the Arctic the deep Arctic Ocean waters is approximated to 500Á600 Ocean’s initial stage as a ventilated ocean with a years (Tanuha et al. 2009). However, the ventilation rate connection to the North Atlantic Ocean through Fram can vary substantially within a basin. Such spatial varia- Strait. Our diagnostics of the OGCM results are aimed at tion can be studied by using OGCMs instead of analysing examining the spatial variation of the ventilation in the discrete samples of tracers. One approach for this is the early Miocene Arctic Ocean. There are some specific Lagrangian dispersion, where Lagrangian trajectories are questions that we want to study qualitatively. First, how computed from the velocity fields of an ocean circulation representative are palaeoceanographic proxies of the model (Johnson et al. 2004; Do¨ o¨ s et al. 2008). Another oxygen content at the ACEX coring sites for the ventila- approach involves integrating the numerical ocean cir- tion state of the early Miocene Arctic Ocean? More culation model with passive tracers (Cox 1989; England specifically, can strong spatial gradients in ventilation 1995; Deleersnijder et al. 2001; Deleersnijder et al. 2002). be expected near the ACEX sites, making the relation The prognostic passive age tracer is integrated using the between local ventilation and the Fram Strait flow advectionÁdiffusion equation, similar to that used for the sensitive to the palaeo-depths and locations of the sites active tracers (temperature and salt). on the Lomonosov Ridge? In addition, we follow up a Thompson et al. (2010) carried out a study of the few open question of principle nature that arose in a ventilation timescale using the Geophysical Fluid Dy- related study by Thompson et al. (2010), which was namics Laboratory Modular Ocean Model 4 (MOM4p1; based on highly idealized model simulations of the early Griffies 2007) and an idealized ocean basin. In this Miocene Arctic Ocean physiographic setting. In particu- present work we use MOM4p1, and build our diagnostics lar, Thompson et al. (2010) made simulations for a basin of the ventilation time and its spatial distribution on the with a volume approximately 10 times smaller than that experience gained from the Thompson et al. (2010) of the Arctic Ocean in the relevant geological period. The study. Their model bathymetry was an idealized repre- present numerical experiment allows testing the volume sentation of the North AtlanticÁFram StraitÁArctic Ocean dependence of the ventilation proposed by Thompson system, and consisted of two semi-enclosed basins con- et al. (2010). nected with a strait over a sill. A series of model ex- periments were performed for different strait widths (96 km or 325 km), sill depths (1000 m or 250 m) Methods and boundary conditions and freshwater fluxes (0.16 Sv or 0.2 Sv), with and without wind stress.
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